Saturday, 11 May 2013 08:06
Two car bombs have hit a Turkish town near the border with Syria, killing 40 people and injuring 100 others, local media have reported.
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Two car bombs have hit a Turkish town near the border with Syria, killing 40 people and injuring 100 others, local media have reported.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he discussed with visiting British Prime Minister David Cameron possible joint measures to end the conflict in Syria.

Thousands of teachers and students have taken to streets across Spain to protest spending cuts they say are destroying the country's public education system.

An explosion on a freight train carrying chemicals and oil products hurled part of a railcar into a residential block in southern Russia, injuring 27 people of whom 13 were taken to hospital, officials said.

Italian prosecutors have filed charges against former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi for allegedly bribing a left-wing senator $3.9m to join his party.

Turkey will support a US-enforced no-fly zone in Syria, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told a US television station.

The Kremlin has announced that Vladislav Surkov, considered the architect of modern Russia's tightly controlled political system, resigned his post of deputy prime minister.

The United States and Russia have agreed to push both sides in Syria to find an end to the bloodshed, offering to hold an international conference in search of peace.

British cosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking has announced his withdrawal from an Israeli conference in Jerusalem, prompting reports that he is supporting an academic boycott on the country.

At least seven people have died and several are missing in the water at the port of Genoa, after a container ship, the Jolly Nero, hit a control tower in a night-time accident.
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